RON ABUELO - Varela Hermanos S.A.

Varela Hermanos S.A. is the work of Don José Varela Blanco, a young Spanish immigrant who in 1908 transferred to the newly established Republic of Panama. This territory, where agriculture is based exclusively on the cultivation of cane sugar, inspired Don José Varela Blanco, who founded a sugar factory. In 1936, the sugar factory began to distil and produce spirits. Since then, Varela Hermanos S.A. is the leader in Panama’s spirits market.

The company owns 1,200 cultivated hectares that produce approximately 75,000 tons of cane sugar a year and has 800 employees that have different jobs from collecting the cane sugar to the sale of the final product. Today it produces more than 1 million cases a year.